Hello, > server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer
Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. > disable auth > broadcastclient > server ntp.server.com prefer This looks fine to me; although configuring a broadcast association when your clients also have a unicast association to the same server seems a bit pointless, this should not cause any harm. I think you should first try to fix your server config and see if getting a proper sync on the server also solves the problem with the clients. > As for /etc/conf.d/ntpd, we have set nothing. To be honest I did not > even know the file > existed till you mentioned it: > > NTPD_OPTS="-u ntp:ntp" That is where you put the commandline options you want ntpd to be started with. > I would have liked to be better prepared for this but the gentoo wiki > page has been down for a few weeks now. We are not looking for > microsecond synchronization however, down to the second would be nice! I doubt you can consistently achieve microsecond-level synchronization with NTP ;) The official documentation of the ntp suite [1] is a good source of information; the man pages of ntpd and ntp.conf are also quite extensive, albeit a bit terse. andrea [1] http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html
